'This painting is special to me as it is of my favorite part of East Africa - the dome shaped volcanic hills near Tortillis Lodge to the west of Amboseli National Park. I have been coming to Amboseli since 1962 and I have seen many changes to the environment here. There is too much pressure on too few resources. There are too many elephants here now for a start. But one thing never changes. The magnetic and gravitational presence of the mountain itself - it is almost overpowering. For that reason I really love doing paintings of this mountain because of the challenge of communicating its massive ,solitary bulk. This work is the seventh large painting I have done of this mountain in a series of paintings I have been working on for the last fifteen years. I remember that the glaciers atop the mountain being much more extensive in 1962 than they are now and I believe that in a few decades time those remnant glaciers will completely disappear. What a thought!

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